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How to see a double meteor shower on Tuesday night with a chance of fireballs
Whether you're in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, you can catch two different types of meteor …
Jessica Orwig
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How to see the year's best meteor shower this weekend, with fireballs, colorful trails, and a Jupiter-Mars conjunction
The Perseids can be the best meteor shower of the year, thanks to bright fireballs and long colorfu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Chinese firm's answer to SpaceX's Falcon 9 blew up in a giant fireball after it accidentally launched during a test
Tianbing Aerospace Technology said it was testing its rocket engine when the Tianlong-3 left the la…
Matthew Loh
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Here's what fireballs are and how to best spot them at the Perseid meteor shower's peak
Explore the celestial spectacle of fireballs during the Perseid meteor shower, set to peak this wee…
Hannah Getahun,Sebastian Cahi…
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An amateur astronomer caught one of the brightest fireballs ever seen on Jupiter. Watch the rare video footage.
An asteroid or comet smacked Jupiter on camera. Only a few impacts this big and bright have ever be…
Maiya Focht,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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2 meteor showers will peak Monday and last into August. One could produce dazzling fireballs.
The Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers are predicted to peak on July 31. Here's …
Hannah Getahun
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All the times SpaceX's Starship has exploded into a giant fireball
SpaceX's Starship exploded for the second time on Saturday. While Starship achieved its main goal, …
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
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The 2023 Perseid meteor shower will peak this weekend, bringing up to 100 fireballs per hour. Here's where to watch.
The Perseid meteor shower will peak August 13, 2023, and conditions to see will be good this year. …
Marianne Guenot
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Video shows a fireball erupting next to Moscow's glitzy skyscrapers as the capital's finance district is struck by drone attacks
Two drones crashed into the fifth and sixth floors of a 50-floor building in Moscow's wealthy finan…
Matthew Loh
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Footage shows massive explosions and fireballs after a wave of Russian drones targeted a city in western Ukraine
The massive explosions in Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine, resulted from a salvo of attack drones lau…
Bethany Dawson
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Elon Musk says he's concerned that SpaceX's Starship could melt the launch pad if it 'fireballed' during takeoff
Elon Musk said the launch pad could be destroyed if the Starship rocket fireballed on it, and Space…
Kate Duffy,Marianne Guenot
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Watch SpaceX's prized Starship mega-rocket explode into a fireball in a video of its first attempt to launch into space
Elon Musk looked on as Starship tumbled back toward Earth, eventually bursting into flame and smoke…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Mariann…
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Buyers of mini cinnamon Fireball bottles thought they contained whisky turns out they don't, lawsuit claims
The suit claims the 99-cent bottles, sold at gas stations and convenience stores, created the "over…
Bethany Biron
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Videos captured a fireball flashing across the Toronto skyline before it struck Earth near Niagara Falls
One video shows the fireball streak past Toronto's CN Tower, while another from a home security cam…
Kelsey Vlamis
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The Taurids meteor shower is expected to peak this weekend. Here's how to watch bright fireballs dazzle the night sky.
Every seven years, the Taurids meteor shower creates bright fireballs that burn up in Earth's atmos…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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The Orionid meteor shower peaks Thursday night. Here's how to watch colorful streaks and fireballs lighting up the sky.
The Orionids appear when Earth travels through debris from Halley's Comet. NASA calls them one of t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An American distillery is turning invasive green crabs into whiskey, and people say it tastes like a 'briny Fireball'
The whiskey is made with a blend of eight spices commonly used in crab boils, Steven Grasse, the ow…
Katie Boon
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Shooting stars beckon in the New Year this weekend. Here's how to spot the fireballs of the Quadrantids meteor shower.
NASA says the Quadrantids are one of the best meteor showers. A bright moon may outshine some of th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Japan has completed its 3-billion-mile mission to collect dust from an asteroid. Photos show the prize falling into Australia like a fireball.
The world now has its first asteroid samples. A Japanese spacecraft bombed asteroid Ryugu to collec…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Orionids meteor shower peaks this week. Here's how to see shooting stars from the dust of Halley's Comet.
Halley's Comet left behind a trail of dust that Earth plows through each year, producing a display …